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I wish I could just project everything on the paper.

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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
Composer
Drawer
Guitarist
Human Rights Activist
Musician
Photographer
Poet
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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Writer
Chicago
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Patricia Lee Smith
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Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.
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I never really wanted to be a singer - not with any longevity. But I always wanted to be a writer.
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Sometimes I get lost in watching a film. The sorrow, or the frustration, is when it doesn't happen for a long time.
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I was always a tomboy as a kid. I always had boyfriends. I was just a regular girl growing up in the late '50s and early '60s, but I was never really attracted to what the girls were attracted to: makeup, my appearance, homemaking.
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Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.
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I have great respect for my parents. I got such beautiful things from both of them. It doesn't mean that we didn't have our rough times, but they were remarkable people who were open-minded, creative and hard-working, and had great senses of humor.
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Ultimately, I want to make everyone horny.
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When I was a teenager, I dreamed of being an opera singer like Maria Callas or a jazz singer like June Christy or Chris Connor, or approaching songs with the kind of mystical lethargy of Billie Holiday, or championing the downtrodden like Lotte Lenya. But I never dreamed of singing in a rock-and-roll band.
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I like energy. I like to feel it cracklin', I like sexual energy in a room, and I like tension.
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I don't think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state it belongs to all people, to Christians and Muslims and the Jewish people.
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Outside of society, if you're looking that's where you'll find me.
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Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar.
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If I'm really working on something, writing or painting or really concentrating, I don't even think about brushing my hair.
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With the death of Robert Mapplethorpe, I had lost my main collaborator in taking photographs. So I didn't know who to work with.
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As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.
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A good artist's always got his hand in his zipper.
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Often the simplest song is the hardest to write.
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My father came a couple of times, but he always blamed his hearing loss on my loud amplifiers. So he didn't come anymore, but I had his support.
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Christianity made us think there's one heaven.
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I'm okay with roaming around the world in my bunk for days on end. Maybe every third day I'll get a shower or stumble out at dawn and realize I'm in a field in Poland. I like that kind of life.
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